Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:04:16 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tgz filesystem Message-ID: <20011128200416.Q46769@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <224030000.1006998892@classic>; from Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:54:52PM -0500 References: <224030000.1006998892@classic>
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* Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca> [011128 19:52] wrote:
> Hi,
> - I would like to use a tar-gzip filesystem that mounts a tgz file. The
This would be nearly useless, a .tgz file is a tar file (which has no TOC)
in a gzipp'd stream. Meaning that browsing it is pretty much impossible
without extracting the whole thing anyhow.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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